Carlo At Everton.

[Cork Evertonian]

It's hard to say no to the biggest club in the world, and there was that burglary at his home as well. Carlo was the right appointment at the wrong time imo.

We bring a world class manager to Goodison, and then give him a transfer budget of five pence and a curly wurly bar!

That sort of thing really is typical Everton. He could've got us a champions league place, if he was given money to spend in the January transfer window.

This is Everton though we just don't go doing things like that! As someone else said it was like buying a Rolls Royce without an actual engine in it!

 

[st.domingo]

We'll always have that glorious Saturday morning on GOT/Flightradar24.

 

[Joey66]

I think the biggest shame was the vast majority of his reign was BCD.

Look at the start of 20/21 with Hames purring just behind a revitalised DCL. Goodison would've fed off that big time.

Probably away form wouldn't have been so strong that season but no way would the home form remained as poor as it was in the second half of that season.

If you look at Ancelotti's record after leaving Madrid the first time he went to Munich and only lasted a year and had their squad complaining about how lax his training was. Then he did a decent if unspectacular job at Napoli.

So there was no real reason to think a Real Madrid calibre club would come calling again but they did and it sent the club back into a downward spiral with the decisions made immediately afterwards.

Plus our main backer financially was withdrawn..

 

[Walken]

Master troll @Neiler

 

[summerisle]

 

[Dancing Pat]

He’ll be the teflon Don

 

[tommye]

The day of my champions league game and you come to me with this.....

 

[Blue83]

Seems they want to hit him with 4 years jail time

 

[Ruairi77]

does this mean LaLiga will dock us 8 points?

 

[riddick]

Spain seems to charge almost every footballer about not paying taxes. And nobody does any time for it. They always get that "1 year and 11 month" sentence which is automatically reduced to a suspended sentence.

 

[Zatara]

Yeah hindsight is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. Most people were very optimistic when Walsh and Koeman came in and then it all went to hell in a hand basket after that. On paper at the time they looked like forward thinking and sensible appointments though. Walsh had bought some crackers at Leicester and Koeman had done a great job at Southampton.

Carlo would have been a cracking appointment then but timing was an issue. By the time he joined us the gravy train had dried up and was careering off the tracks.

I certainly was not excited about Koeman.

Spain seems to charge almost every footballer about not paying taxes. And nobody does any time for it. They always get that "1 year and 11 month" sentence which is automatically reduced to a suspended sentence.

Take a look at Barcelona taxes especially. Theyre mad...renting out property it seems you pay the tax even if not fully rented all year.

Spain has always been nice for holidays but they really want to keep your money.

 

[tommye]

does this mean LaLiga will dock us 8 points?

...and a penalty to the gobshites

 

[Martin Alvito]

Spain seems to charge almost every footballer about not paying taxes. And nobody does any time for it. They always get that "1 year and 11 month" sentence which is automatically reduced to a suspended sentence.

It looks a lot like a series of government shakedowns. I don't know enough about the subject to say if it's serial noncompliance and the government collecting what is owed, or if it's government overreach into the pockets of the wealthy that is tolerated as a cost of doing business.

 

[Blast_of_Cannock]

Once Everton has touched you...

 

[Joey66]

Are you really suggesting he should have honoured his contract at Everton and turned down winning Trophies at Real?

Blud?

He was poached to go back to Real - he lost interest in us around Christmas the results showed that - no I could not blame leaving a sinking ship, but then to sue us when in financial ruin was a kick in the @ick imo....